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Shortly before Marie Fleurizard was stabbed to death in her West Palm Beach home, her boyfriend, Sadrac Nelson, gave her mother an ominous warning, according to prosecutor Kirk Volker. "If Marie didn't marry him, there'd be hell to pay," Volker told a jury Thursday during opening arguments in Nelson's first-degree murder trial. On Oct. 2, 2004, when family members were unable to reach Fleurizard, a 38-year-old mother of four, her brother, Serge Pierre, went to her Cherry Road home and made a grisly discovery: Fleurizard's body lay in a pool of blood on the floor of her locked bedroom.

The suicide note of Stuart Williams, the troubled Broward County gunman who killed several innocent people before taking his own life, is a clear indictment of our health services system. The last line of Williams' note, which you recently printed, indicated how his health insurance company did not pay for his psychological treatments. I'm sure they would have paid for treatments had Williams been diagnosed with cancer, heart problems, diabetes, or even a broken bone. Mental health maladies are apparently not categorized as a health detriment.

The death of a man struck by two trains during the weekend appears to be a suicide, police said. John Norbert Niedzwiecki Jr., 34, had told his roommate on Friday night that he was going to lie on the tracks behind the house they were renting on Northeast Third Avenue, a police report said. Niedzwiecki was depressed and had alcohol and cocaine in his system, the report said. He left a suicide note with his roommate. The roommate said he met the victim in Narcotics Anonymous meetings and that he had been living with him for two weeks, the report said.

A 39-year-old woman was killed when she walked into the path of a northbound Tri-Rail train about 4:20 p.m. Sunday in Hollywood. Police suspect the woman committed suicide. They found her driver's license and said she was from Hollywood but declined to identify her. They were trying to reach family members. The incident occurred just north of the Taft Street crossing and delayed the train for about an hour. "The conductor told us she just walked on the track, looked at the train for a while, then turned her back and got hit," Hollywood Police spokeswoman Stephanie Norris said.

— The deaths of a man and his girlfriend over the weekend were a murder-suicide, coming after the couple's recent breakup, the Broward Sheriff's Office confirmed Monday. Stephen K. Bradley, 27, of Margate, shot and killed Melissa D. Kaehler, 35, of Fort Lauderdale, the Sheriff's Office said. Shortly before 10 a.m. Saturday, Kaehler's body was found in a car in the parking lot of Walmart, 2300 W. Atlantic Blvd., authorities said. At that time, investigators removed from the sedan enough flower bouquets to fill a shopping cart.

An Okeechobee County Jail inmate facing DUI manslaughter charges was found dead on Thursday from an apparent suicide, according to Okeechobee County Sheriff's deputies. Deputies say Kerrie Michelle Howard, 35, had been an inmate at the jail since March, when a judge revoked her bail on drug charges. While in jail Howard was charged with DUI manslaughter and other crimes for her alleged role in a 2009 crash that killed 25-year-old Derrick Jace Rogers. Howard was awaiting trial on those charges.

A suicide note written by Miami attorney Stephen Arky before he killed himself in 1985 said that financier Marvin Warner -- Arky`s father-in-law -- was "innocent of any wrongdoing" related to the now-defunct ESM Government Securities, a federal judge was told on Tuesday. Arky`s widow, Marlin Arky, produced the suicide note on Tuesday during testimony at a civil trial in Fort Lauderdale, but U.S. District Judge Jose Gonzales dismissed the note as hearsay evidence. Marlin Arky is Warner`s daughter.

MIAMI -- A crime that shocked Dade County and left parents fearful for their children`s safety took a bizarre, final twist Thursday. A Miami man who police say jumped into a canal and drowned after resisting rescue efforts was identified as the assailant who raped a 12-year-old schoolgirl Wednesday. Miami police on Thursday said the victim identified Wayne Seguine, 22, a convicted burglar, as the man who raped her Wednesday morning. She was waiting outside Coral Way Elementary for a bus to another school.

LOCAL No rescue for Mayday's Bulldozers will move in this morning and knock down the restaurant, the oldest structure standing in Pembroke Pines. The WWII-era control tower is at North Perry Airport. 3B Man killed left suicide note Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti said Monday the man killed by a SWAT Team on Thursday left a suicide note naming five people he was going after because of his financial problems. 3B LIFESTYLE Madonna still sweet after all these years Madonna is closing in on 50, but she still dishes up plenty of sweet beats on the new album Hard Candy, in stores today.

Police are investigating the death of a woman shot dead 10 to 30 days ago and found wrapped "like a cocoon" in multiple layers of plastic garbage bags and blankets. "She was wrapped and packaged - almost mummified," Detective Dusty Rhodes said on Tuesday. Police are still not certain whether Roberta Lynn Gordon, who suffered from severe arthritis, killed herself or was shot by her ex-husband before he committed suicide in a Tampa motel room on Saturday. Gordon, 52, an artist and former schoolteacher in Dade and Hillsborough counties, lived in the 1400 block of Northeast 42nd Court.